tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18745625305311011412024-03-14T09:12:36.867+01:00Weird OperaJasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-78494316141099608942014-02-20T17:12:00.001+01:002014-02-20T17:12:36.568+01:00Faces of Pretomournon:The Dwarf with the Eye-patch<h1>
Ibbo<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US">A
strange-looking creature, small and stocky, but broad and strong. Maybe it's a
small man, or maybe a large gnome. Maybe it's a member of an unknown race from
a distant corner of Seralin, or even from one of the other moons of Anderove.
Anyway, the creature calls itself a “dwarf”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dwarves are
not native to the Weird opera world, but then, Ibbo is not from this world. He
comes from a distant planet located in another universe, where immortals rule
over an eternal empire. Ibbo double-crossed one of them, and had to run for his
life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an ancient map, Ibbo found his way into a strange multi-dimensional castle, in
which he quickly became lost. Wandering through the castle’s many rooms and
corridors, the strangeness and horrors he encountered almost drove him mad.
Chased by a swarm of vargouilles, he sought refuge in what appeared to be a
chapel. It was there he was contacted by Arak-Kur-Mortahn, The Death Titan, a
demonic destroyer of worlds traveling from world to world in his ship of the
lost. Ibbo vowed to serve the Lord of Twist and The Death Titan provided a
portal key that would activate one of the many magical portals out of the castle.
Ibbo ended up on Seralin, where he resides to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The dwarf
has dull gray skin and wears shiny black leather armor. He wears an eye-patch
over his left eye, making him look like a pirate, shaves his head bald, and
wears his graying beard short. He speaks with a deep voice that could be
described as “fatherly”, or as “disturbing”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Pretomournon’s
inhabitants don’t notice, but Ibbo has the surly attitude of a typical dwarf;
stoic and stern, dour and humorless. In addition, he’s very foul-tempered and
mean. He fully intends to help the Lords of Misrule to destroy this world and
many others after that. Even though Ibbo’s the Disciple of the 5<sup>th</sup>
Lord of Misrule, he’s happy to let another demon bring about the Apocalypse.
It’s for this reason he helps the jester <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-jester.html" target="_blank">Quinzel</a> to summon her master, Padat
The Fall. That, and the girl is easy to take advantage of when she’s in one of
her depressive moods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If not
working to cause the end of the world, Ibbo indulges in his hobbies: robbery,
theft, murder and tax evasion. Not too long ago he stole a chest of magical
weapons from smuggler Vithimiris Reizensteijn, with the help of a key provided
by key maker Frederika Gvene. He sold the weapons for a large sum of money to
the amazon <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/10/faces-of-pretomournon-amazon.html" target="_blank">Demostratia</a>. However, Gvene talked under pressure, and now
Reizensteijn has offered a substantial award for "the dwarf with the eye-patch".
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ibbo:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL C; MV 12; AC 6 (studded leather, Dex); Male
Dwarf 9; hp 59; #AT 1; Dmg 1d6+5 (dwarven thrower war hammer, Str) or 2d6+10
when thrown, or by weapon +2; S 16, D 13, C 16, I 15, W 10, Ch 15; M 6; items: <i>amulet vs. crystal balls and ESP</i>; XP 2,400.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ibbo has
all the special qualities of the dwarf class.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Location:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> The lighthouse in the harbor, Quinzel’s apartment
in the River District, or committing a crime somewhere else in the city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>See also:</b> <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/10/faces-of-pretomournon-amazon.html" target="_blank">Demostratia</a>, Frederika Gvene, <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-jester.html" target="_blank">Quinzel</a>, Vithimiris Reizensteijn.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Note: </b></span>Arak-Kur-Mortahn, The Death Titan appears in the one-page dungeon <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2012/04/1-page-dungeon-ship-of-lost.html" target="_blank">Ship of the Lost</a>.</div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-34948968420318054922014-02-02T13:31:00.000+01:002014-02-02T13:31:43.373+01:00Stationery Vermin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are
lots of monsters said to be the result of magical experiments, and so are the
creatures known as stationery vermin. It seems plausible indeed that these
pests were an invention of an office working mage, cleric, or clerk who was
tired of misplacing his scissors or pencils. Whatever the truth, now stationery
vermin are breeding, and have become a nuisance in any office environment.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Stationery vermin
are small creatures, about the size of rats. Each has a piece of office
supplies for a head: scissors, a stapler, a pencil, etc. They can be either bipedal
and quadrupedal, and there are species that are bird-like and can fly. Apparently,
these shapes are independent of the type of stationery – there are both running
and flying scissorheads, for example. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Stationery vermin
can be trained to follow orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Stationary Vermin (2d12):</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL N; MV 150’ (50’), (birdlike
vermin have 180’ (60’) flying); AC 7; HD 1-2 hp; #AT 1 (bite); Dmg 1; Save Human0;
M 5; XP 6. In addition, every type of stationery has a special attack or
ability, as given below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Eraserhead.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Erase:</i>
At will, the eraserhead can <i>erase</i>
magical writing as the 1<sup>st</sup>-level magic-user spell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The glue-tubehead can cover any surface with a sticky substance. Creatures
touching the glue cannot mow, unless a Str-check is made. If the check is unsuccessful
other actions to free oneself can be taken (for example, taking of ones boots
or gloves).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Pencilhead:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Illusory
script:</i> Once per day, the pencilhead can disguise it’s writing as per the 3<sup>rd</sup>-level
illusionist spell <i>illusory script</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Scissorhead:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Cut:</i>
The attacks of the scissorhead do 1d6 damage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Staplerhead:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Staples:</i>
The attacks of a staplerhead do 1d4 damage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Tape-Dispenserhead.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Constriction:</i>
if the tape-dispenserhead’s attack hits, its target’s legs are constricted,
making it impossible to walk without falling (1d4 dmg).</span></div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-91975934572201102532014-01-18T20:05:00.000+01:002014-01-18T20:05:11.014+01:00Variant: Hit Dice by Race<div class="MsoNormal">
This
variant is inspired by the way Hit Dice work in OD&D.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The kind of
die a character rolls for hit points is determined by his race, not his class. The
table below shows the Hit Dice for the most common races:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hit Die<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dwarf<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Elf<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gnome<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Half-elf<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Halfling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Half-ogre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Half-orc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Human<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For the
races of the Weird Opera world they are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Race<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hit Die<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Botanoid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gnome<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Morlock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Neanderthal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nine-Lives
Cat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</tr>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Paragon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pig<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Porcine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Human<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">One die is
rolled at first level, but further dice are not rolled at every level of
experience. A character’s class determines at which level he gains another Hit
Die. For example, a cleric gains his second Hit Die at 2<sup>nd</sup> level,
but doesn’t get his third Hit Die until level 4. A magic-user gets a Hit Die
every other level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">At levels
at which a class doesn’t get a full Hit Die, he gains a flat number of hit
points, usually 1 or 2. The following table shows the Hit Die progression for
the four main classes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
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<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Level<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Cleric<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Fighter<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Magic-user<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thief<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+1
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+2
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+2
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+2
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+4
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+4
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+3
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+4
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+6
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+6
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+3
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+5
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">11<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+6
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+8
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">12<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+8
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+9
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+6
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">13<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+12
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">14<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+10
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+15
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+7
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+10
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">15<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+12
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+18
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">16<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+14
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+21
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+8
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+12
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">17<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+16
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+24
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+14
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">18<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+18
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+27
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+9
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+16
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">19<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+20
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+30
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+18
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">20<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+22
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+33
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+10
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(+20
hp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Further
Notes:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">* Fighters
gain one Hit Die type greater than normal for his race. For example, a human
fighter would uses d10 for Hit Dice. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">* Paladins
and rangers use the fighter progression, but don’t get the greater die type.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">* Druids
and monks use the cleric progression.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">* Illusionists
and spelldancers use the magic-user progression.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">* Assassins
use the thief progression.</span></div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-21789407677829691732014-01-10T16:33:00.001+01:002014-01-10T16:33:20.163+01:00New Race: Nine-Lives Cat<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Nine-Lives Cats<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8NQVPlbDjOhqmEb1SRK0bPBTJvqv4u-DksYF1SYxoMD8Ns9bxGu5mxyNrYi_tYTgslVB_uea23GYkTitYm6R5GZV1D_-I9vL-XmlW26Ygwq8yUVxU3I-LJTf_zSEJe6XM1n5schtib7U/s1600/79ff5ef567b08e292227cda98ba313b2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8NQVPlbDjOhqmEb1SRK0bPBTJvqv4u-DksYF1SYxoMD8Ns9bxGu5mxyNrYi_tYTgslVB_uea23GYkTitYm6R5GZV1D_-I9vL-XmlW26Ygwq8yUVxU3I-LJTf_zSEJe6XM1n5schtib7U/s1600/79ff5ef567b08e292227cda98ba313b2.jpg" height="320" width="198" /></a><b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Requirements:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"> INT 9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Ability Modifiers:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"> DEX +1, WIS -1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Nine-lives cats are a
race of intelligent shape-changing felines. They are not lycanthropes, and can
transform at will. They can assume two shapes: that of a cat and that of a
single unique human. Unlike lycanthropes, they do not have a bipedal cat form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">The human form is that
of an attractive young woman or, less frequently, a young man. Like normal humans
they are very diverse in appearance. They are virtually undetectable from a
normal human, except for the pointy, fur-covered cat’s ears that are also
visible in this shape. The cat’s ears are easily hidden beneath a hat or cap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Nine-lives cats have
infravision of 120 feet. In addition to their alignment language, common, elvish,
and halfling they can speak to normal cats and felines, including big cats like
tigers and lions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Changing from one form
to the other costs one round. Armor and equipment do not transform with the
character, and his or her cat shape cannot use any weapons, armor or other
equipment. A spellcaster in cat form may cast spells, but cannot handle any material
components or use magic items.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">The cat form is 1’-2’ tall.
It has AC 6, Move 120’, and 3 attacks: 2 claws and 1 bite, each doing 1d2 damage.
It has a number of d4 hp equal to the character’s level, but may not have more hit
points than the human form. Wounds taken in one form carry over in the other. The
nine-lives cat dies when the hp of her current form reach 0. However, the cat
has nine lives, and if she has any lives left, she’s raised in 1d6 x 10 minutes
as per the <i>raise dead</i> spell. If her
nine lives are used, she’s dead for good. A dead nine-lives cat cannot be
raised, except with a <i>wish</i>, that can
give the character a new cycle of nine lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Nine-lives cats may
select from the following classes, with the indicated level limits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">NINE-LIVES
CAT CLASSES AVAILABLE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Class<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Level
Limit<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Assassin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Fighter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Magic-User<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">U<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Spelldancer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">U<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Thief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Nine-lives cat thieves
receive the following bonuses and penalties to thief abilities:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;"><br /></span></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">NINE-LIVES
CAT THIEF SKILL ADJUSTMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Skill<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Adjustment<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Pick Locks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">-5%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Pick Pockets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">+5%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Move Silently<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">+7%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Hide in Shadows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">+10%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">Hear Noise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">+1*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Souvenir;">*Nine-lives cats receive a better dice range for
hearing noises. For example, 1<sup>st</sup> level nine-lives cat thieves hear
noises on a 1-3, and at 9th level it is 1-5. Hear noise may never be better
than 1-5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-57184937319650299972013-12-31T18:01:00.000+01:002013-12-31T18:01:21.546+01:002013: A Quick Review<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In almost six hours it will be 2014 in my little corner of the world. So there’s still time for me to do a review
of 2013!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The year
didn’t start well for me, with me being ill and having trouble doing things I
really enjoyed – like blogging. In July I came back to this blog and started
writing <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/search/label/Three%20Sad%20Wizards" target="_blank">Three Sad Wizards</a>. Most of the posts I made in July and August were
about this module. I really like how it turned out and, judging from reactions
I got, other people do as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In September
I completed the <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/search/label/30%20Day%20Challenge" target="_blank">30 Day Challenge</a>. Not all questions on the list were
interesting, but I tried to make something of every post, and most of the time
I succeeded. And after a year of not being able to blog, this did feel as a
real victory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I also
started a series inspired by the Planescape book <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/08/uncaged-faces-of-sigil.html" target="_blank">Uncaged Faces of Sigil</a>. I did
six entries in the series <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/search/label/Faces%20of%20Pretomournon" target="_blank">Faces of Pretomournon</a>. So far I’m pleased with how
the series is turning out, but I think the entries may be a bit too long. Faces
of Pretomournon will return in the new year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In October
I wrote my most popular post from this year: <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/10/orc-babies.html" target="_blank">Orc Babies</a>. It was a commentary on
D&D Next’s “story elements”, that threaten to be completely uninspired and
boring. To put money where my mouth is, I showed how I do orc babies in my
campaign. Apparently, people liked that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In November
I participated in NaNoWriMo. I hoped I could continue blogging, but that proved
to be unrealistic. However, I did write 50K words on my novel that is now
almost finished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">So what
will 2014 bring?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I’m writing
a module called <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/search/label/Lost%20Library%20of%20the%20Death%20Speakers" target="_blank">Lost Library of the Death Speakers</a>, which is on hold until I figure
out a way to make it less boring. I’m also outlining Valkyries vs. Amazons, an
module which can be summed up as </span><a href="http://ffiua.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Female Fighters in Unreasonable Armor</a> – the Module.
However, I also have my Nanowrimo novel to finish, so it may take a while
before I have time for it.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I’m also
writing the DSA game, a clone of the first edition of Germany’s most popular
roleplaying game. So far, I have most of character creation, about half of
combat, and a lot of spells done. Still a lot to do though, so it will take
time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Happy new year
to everyone, and see you next year!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-72014168356129128192013-12-25T15:17:00.000+01:002013-12-25T15:17:02.098+01:00The Wild Hunt<div class="MsoNormal">
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winter solstice, the Wild Hunt rides from Castle Woden. A group of riders with
black faces, a large pack of huge black hounds, and numerous spirits or fairy
beings, in pursuit of a single mortal being. The Hunt rides over ancient paths
and roads, now long gone. If they encounter a farm, a village, or another building
in their way , it’s burned to the ground.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Master of
the Hunt is the Dark Huntsman, demon-like figure with antlers and a leather
mask covering the entirety of his face. He rides either a black horse, or a
white one, depending if the Hunt hunts a guilty soul, or an innocent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Some years
(40% chance) Frau Hulda, the snow maker, rides in front of the Hunt in her
chariot. If she’s with the Hunt, a terrible storm rages over the land, felling
trees, destroying blowing down wooden structures like fences and barns, and
sometimes making casualties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">People encountering
the Hunt should avert their eyes or risk being swept up by it. Characters who
see it must save vs. spells or become part of the Hunt. The fate of such a
person varies wildly. Some join the Hunt as hunters, following the Master’s
orders, even if they go against their alignment. They will be released after
the quarry has been caught and the Hunt is over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Others are
not so lucky. Characters with WIS 7 or lower will join the Hunt as one of its black
hounds. The unlucky character will start running on all four and turn into a huge
dog. A smaller white puppy will stay behind in his place. After the Hunt is
over, the black hounds evaporate and the persons are lost in the spirit world for
a year. If his family takes good care of the white pup, the character will be
released next winter solstice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Beautiful young
girls and boys (CHA 15 or above) will be kidnapped by the riders and taken back
to Castle Woden, never to be seen again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Wild
Hunt often rides through its quarry’s home town, destroying the village in the
process. To prevent the village from being burned down, villages often cast out
girls into the forest, hoping the Hunt’s designated prey is among them. These
girls are often taken into the homes of gnomes or witches in the forest. Some
of them are lost for good or are found the next day frozen to death. Most of
them return to the village safely, with no memory of what happened to them that
night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Hunt’s quarry
is usually a girl, often guilty but sometimes innocent. She can always hear the
hounds coming closer, and is under the influence of a <i>fear</i> spell during the hunt. The Hunt is over when it captures its
prey and shreds it to pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">However,
deep in the woods is an unnamed stone circle, overgrown and hardly recognizable
as such. The bones of the Master of the Hunt are buried there. If the prey
manages to reach the circle she’s save. The Dark Huntsman cannot enter the
circle, and will release the prey. She will never be hunted again by the Wild
Hunt in her life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The Hunt
can be fought, but it can never be destroyed. When the Dark Huntsman and his hounds
are killed in combat, their bodies will disappear, only to reappear the next
night. If their prey is still alive, the Hunt continues.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">The Dark Huntsman</span></b><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:</span></strong> <span lang="EN-US">AL N; MV 180’ (60’); AC 2; HD 15; hp 80; #AT 2; Dmg
1d6+6 (<i>spear +3 )</i>; Save F15; M 10; XP
1900. The Huntsman usually attacks with his <i>spear
+3</i>. He may also steer his horse to trample an opponent, for 4d6 damage.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Frau Hulda</span></b><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:</span></strong> <span lang="EN-US">AL C; MV 120’ (40’); AC 3; HD 12; hp 72; #AT 3 (2
claws, 1 bite) ; Dmg 2d6 (claw) or 1d8 (bite); Save M12; Special: Spells; M 10;
XP 2000. Frau Hulda specializes in spells concerning the weather. She can ride
her chariot over victims, for 3d10 of damage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Hounds (3d4):</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL C; MV 120’ (40’); AC 4; HD 6; hp 25 each;
#AT 1 (bite); Dmg 1d6; Save F6; M 9; XP 570. The Hounds of the Hunt can <i>cause fear</i> in any mortal being.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h2>
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"><span style="font-size: large;">Call Forth
the Wild Hunt</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> </span><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span lang="EN-US">Level:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent;"> Druid 4</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Duration:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> up to 10 days (see below)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Range:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> 0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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This specialized ritual should be cast in the ten days between the winter
solstice and the new year in the stone circle where the Dark Hunter was buried.
The spell costs thirty minutes to cast, and requires an item belonging to the
intended victim. Once the ritual is complete, the ghost of the Hunter will
appear and listen to the caster’s reasons to call the Hunt on someone. No
matter if the reasons for doing so are just or not, the spell compels the Hunt
to obey and pursue the quarry designated by the spellcaster.</div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-10445823828881537582013-12-18T14:23:00.001+01:002013-12-18T14:23:39.123+01:00Review: Adventures Dark and Deep Bestiary<i><span lang="EN-US"><b><a href="http://www.brwgames.com/?page_id=11" target="_blank">Adventures Dark and Deep</a></b></span></i><span lang="EN-US"> is <b><a href="http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.nl/" target="_blank">Joseph Bloch</a></b>’s thought experiment made real: “What if Gary Gygax
had been allowed to go through with his plans for a second edition of the
world’s most popular role-playing game?’</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj-0pmuhUCdkopJdVSH1APAcATWxi0B4KjXLAt-O0rFiftCElYBw0m29iCD7qI1jyEL0vvab-UaYJ8EFYEmZxb3g9TiBUuS4DJU6ZFvU3M4wk5f0d6N45_1ra8hlFlcOaoocstM0v33AC-/s1600/ADD_bestiary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj-0pmuhUCdkopJdVSH1APAcATWxi0B4KjXLAt-O0rFiftCElYBw0m29iCD7qI1jyEL0vvab-UaYJ8EFYEmZxb3g9TiBUuS4DJU6ZFvU3M4wk5f0d6N45_1ra8hlFlcOaoocstM0v33AC-/s320/ADD_bestiary.jpg" width="246" /></a><span lang="EN-US">The result
is an AD&D variant vastly superior to the original: it’s better written,
has better art, and has more options for players to try out. The game is a
magnificent achievement, and raises the bar for OSR products. The game’s <i>Players Manual</i> and the <i>Game Masters Toolkit</i> are both great, but
the best book, and also the one easiest usable with other OSR games, is the <i>Bestiary</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s 457
pages hold over 900, monsters, animals, and other creatures. It includes all
creatures from the SRD, a great number of monsters from other OGL sources like
the <i>Complete Tome of Horrors</i>, and
some original creatures as well. So we have seen most of these monsters before
in other sources. The original creatures
are mostly new expressions of old ideas that don’t have an OGL version yet (for
example, the Fairy Courts).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So what
makes this book so good? It has <i>everything</i>.
It’s got all the basics covered, and a lot of the extras as well. For the first
time, everything’s in one book. If you’re like me, you don’t want to have to
reference multiple monster books and magazine issues to stock a dungeon. As a
result most of the monsters encountered in my campaigns were from the 2<sup>nd</sup>
Edition Monstrous Manual, formerly my go-to monster book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Is there
something I don’t like about the book?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Some of the
art is great, but some of the art relies too much on tracing it’s reference,
instead of referencing it. What’s worst, the design of the book is very basic.
Some of the art doesn’t get the space it needs and falls a bit cramped, other
pieces are printed too large and falls a bit flat. Tellingly, there’s no
designer or art director credited. However, I acknowledge the achievement of
having that much art in a small OSR publication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The cover
of my copy is a bit blurred, and some of the black-and-white art inside is a
bit pixelated, making me think the printer worked from low resolution images.
My copies of the Players Manual and the<i> Game
Masters Toolkit</i> do not have these flaws.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">All-in-all,
the <i>Bestiary</i> is the best monster book
currently available for any system. If you play any old school variant of
D&D, you should check it out. If you play AD&D, you should take a look
at the rest of the <i>Adventures Dark and
Deep</i> rules as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Morale<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Here’s a
small issue I came upon when using the <i>Bestiary</i>
for an B/X module. In the <i>Bestiary</i>, Morale
is given as an adjustment on morale checks , which in <i>Adventures Dark and Deep</i> are rolled on 1d20. This is an improvement
over AD&D’s percentile system, but it makes it harder to use with B/X,
which uses 2d6, or 2<sup>nd</sup> Edition AD&D, which uses 2d10. So I made
a conversion chart:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Morale Conversion<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">ADD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">AD&D<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">2<sup>nd</sup> Edition<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">BX or BECMI<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">0%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Unreliable (2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">5%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Unreliable (2-4)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">2-3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">10%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Unsteady (5)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">15%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Unsteady (6)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">-6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">20%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Unsteady (7)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">-5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">25%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Average (8)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">-4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">30%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Average (8)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">-3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">35%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Average (9)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">-2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">40%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Average (9)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">-1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">45%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Average (10)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">50%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Steady (11)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">+1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">55%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Steady (11)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">+2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">60%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Steady (12)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">+3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">65%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Steady (12)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">+4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">70%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Elite (13)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">+5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">75%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Elite (13)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">+6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">80%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top">
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<span lang="EN-US">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">90%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">+9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">100%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-3551754497675441232013-12-06T12:52:00.001+01:002013-12-06T12:52:07.954+01:00Check Out This Awesome Blog List<a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/115126071910531256568" target="_blank">+Charles Akins</a> has compiled an impressive list of <a href="http://dyverscampaign.blogspot.nl/2013/12/the-great-blog-roll-call.html" target="_blank">OSR related blogs</a>. Each blog gets a short description what it's about and how frequently it's updated. For example, my blog is:<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">A fun, meandering blog that tends focus on most everything related to the hobby. Inventive and clever. A good place to start in the archives is Orc Babies and you'll know the tenor of this blog from the get go. </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Updates:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> Dark since October 30, 2013.</span><br />
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Inventive and clever. Yes, that made my day.<br />
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The list is already the most complete overview of the OSR blog-o-sphere, and Charles is updating it with blogs from the comments. It is a great resource to discover new blogs to read.<br />
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<a href="http://dyverscampaign.blogspot.nl/2013/12/the-great-blog-roll-call.html" target="_blank">Check it out!</a>Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-47181157205824106962013-10-30T13:29:00.001+01:002013-10-30T13:29:11.955+01:00November: Nanowrimo & The DSA GameThis november, like every november for the past seven years, I'll be participating in National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo for short). The goal is to write a novel of 50,000 words in one month. So far, I've "won" 3 times and "lost" three times, so my chance of completing the challenge this year is about 50%. In years I didn't complete 50K of words, I still wrote 20K - 30K, so it's still a boost for my writing, and so far I've completed three-and-a-half novels this way.<br />
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This year, I'm also writing a game. To be precise, I'll be writing a clone of the 1st edition of<i> Das Schwarze Auge</i>. I'm including both the Basic Set and the Expansion Set, so it will be pretty complete, and despite the bad rep the game has in some circles, it will actually be pretty good. (And it will be nice to have a version of the rules without Ulrich Kiesow's childish writing voice).<br />
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For this blog, it means posting will be light next month. Hopefully, I can manage to post at least once a week.<br />
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Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-70379284518684373262013-10-26T21:17:00.000+02:002013-10-26T21:17:29.205+02:00Spells of the Identity MageDr. Stirma
Dijke is a research scientist working at the College for Psychology and Philosophy
of Pretomournon University. Her specialty is identity, especially it’s changeability and instability.
She conducts horrible experiments in which she regularly wipes subjects’
memories, forces new identities upon them, and generally makes them ripe for
the asylum. Here’s two of the spells she uses.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Change Identity</span></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Level:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Magic-user 5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Duration:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Permanent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Range:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> 25 ft.
+5 ft./2 levels<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The change
identity spell lets a mage change a single other person’s unique sense of self.
It can fully change the mental make-up of a person: his mental abilities, his
personality, his class, etc. Although it can change physical attributes like
the character’s race and sex, it’s a mental change, For example, a male human
who’s changed into a female dwarf sees and feels female and dwarf in all
respects, but she still looks exactly the same as before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For every
level the caster has above 6<sup>th</sup>, he may change one of the following
things. So a 9<sup>th</sup>-level mage may change three things, a 10<sup>th</sup>-level
mage may change four things, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">The
victim’s Intelligence score. Re-roll with 3d6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">The
victim’s Wisdom score. Re-roll with 3d6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
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victim’s Charisma score. Re-roll with 3d6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">The
victim’s class. The caster picks the new class. The victim stays the same level
as before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">The
victim’s race. The caster picks the new race. This is a mental change only.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">The
victim’s sex. The victim becomes a member of the opposite sex. This is a mental
change only.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
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victim’s sexual identity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Incognito</span></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Level:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Magic-user 6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Duration:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Variable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Range:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> 0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This spell
makes all people in the world forget who the caster is. For the duration of the
spell, not even his best friends will recognize him. He will be a complete
stranger, although some people may think he looks a bit familiar. When the
caster tells a person who he really is (“It’s me… Argus.”), that person will suddenly
see who he really is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To
determine the precise duration and effect of the incognito spell, the caster
makes a Charisma check. Because characters with higher Charisma are more
memorable, it’s better to fail this check than it is to succeed with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Normally,
the magic of the spell keeps working after the spell duration has ended: people
who meet the caster while the spell is in effect will keep on remembering the
stranger. However, on a very successful Charisma check they will retroactively
remember his true identity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some may wonder why he looks familiar, and he will retroactively be
remembered after the duration has passed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-27093298052278093182013-10-23T21:39:00.001+02:002013-10-23T21:39:35.414+02:00Faces of Pretomournon: The Amazon<h1>
Demostratia<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Knights
of the Ark are champions of Neutrality, trying to keep the balance between Law
and Chaos. It is the largest knighthood on the world of Seralin, and consists
entirely of women. As often happens in such large organizations there are
different movements within the order, that explain the ideologies of the order
differently and want to implement its objectives in different ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One of the
largest groups within the Knights are the Amazons. Amazons believe that the
balance between Law and Chaos can be best accomplished by fighting against the
natural course of things (which contains of both order and entropy). One of the
ways they do that is bringing the dead back to life (with the <i>raise dead</i> spell). The revived dead
become <i>beimana</i>, or cheaters, and are
taken out of the wheel of reincarnation. They can never reincarnate again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In Pretomournon’s
Ruined Tower District stands "The Unaligned School for Young Women",
led by its headmistress Demostratia, knight of the Ark and Amazon. The pupils
at the school are all between twelve and sixteen years. They’re trained to be
squires to knights of the Ark, and eventually after an internship will receive a
full knighthood. All the girls are <i>beimana</i>,
meaning they have been dead and were resurrected by an Ark knight, after which
they were transferred to the girl school in Pretomournon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9XBaCRQkCfqSt9PpKs_1kqV3ym3goEaByjzVcidqIVvnHdlQtWwkw3FtNbZi4khIeihwIrydKcPGksFWkJktTO-2LHYhyphenhyphenl6ZbFfjT70lYY_zevjclsLdSim_a2RyUFjNpYDKDBJxcPpay/s1600/Demostratia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9XBaCRQkCfqSt9PpKs_1kqV3ym3goEaByjzVcidqIVvnHdlQtWwkw3FtNbZi4khIeihwIrydKcPGksFWkJktTO-2LHYhyphenhyphenl6ZbFfjT70lYY_zevjclsLdSim_a2RyUFjNpYDKDBJxcPpay/s1600/Demostratia.jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-US">Demostratia
was born on the knights’ ark <i>Utnapishtim</i>.
As a young girl she was one of the most promising squires, and she was fully knighted
at the young age of fifteen. In the decade that followed Demostratia
accomplished many successful missions, and she rose steadily through the ranks
of the Guild. However, when she observed the knights’ "end justifies the
means" philosophy in action on several of her missions, she grew more and
more dissatisfied with the Guild's lessons. Her loss of faith successfully
hiding, Demostratia was offered the position of headmistress of The Unaligned
School. She took it eagerly, and she left for Pretomournon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Her
superiors do not know that in Pretomournon Demostratia joined La Révolution,
the Guild that believes people should be able to choose their own leaders. The
entire staff of the school consists of revolutionaries. In addition to classes about
the knight’s code and philosophy about Order, Neutrality, and Chaos, students
also get lessons in political science, guerrilla tactics, setting traps,
assassination, and alchemical bomb making. When the students graduate they are not
only knights, but also terrorists. Demostratia's goal is nothing less than to
overthrow the leaders of the Knights of the Ark itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To arm her pupils,
Demostratia purchased a chest of magic weapons the dwarf Ibbo. This chest was
stolen by Ibbo from the warehouse of Vithimiris Reizensteijn. Reizensteijn is
outraged by the theft and has offered a reward for "the dwarf with the eye-patch",
but doesn’t know that the weapons are now in the hands of the revolutionary amazons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Running the
school does not go in its entirety without any problems. The gang of <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/10/faces-of-pretomournon-pigs.html" target="_blank">The Basher Brothers</a> visited the school a few times
to suggest “in a friendly but firm way" to the headmistress to move. After
some inquiries here and there Demostratia found out The Temple wants to draw a
magical rune in streets, and that the school is in the way. Demostratia is not
going to move the school, and so far she has managed to resist the pigs. The
Bashers, not used to knights who aren’t intimidated, have yet to find a way to
clear the school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Another
problem presents itself in the guise of the young scoundrel which is known as
"The Romanticist". This romantic rogue visits the school regularly at
night to “honor” some of the older girls with a visit. Naturally Demostratia
and her staff do not want this, but they suffer the disadvantage of girls taught
to turn against authority: time after time the girls help the Romanticist to
hide or to get away. So far, Demostratia failed to catch the young man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">However, she
did catch the thief Esbern. Demostratia caught the handsome thief when he tried
to rob her office. He begged her not to hand him over to the authorities.
Demostratia agreed, on condition Esbern did a number of jobs for her. Since
then, an unusual relationship developed between the two, in which both are attracted
to each other, but neither wants a love affair with the other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Demostratia:</b><span lang="EN-US"> AL N; MV 12; AC -1 (banded mail +1,
shield +2, Dex); Human Female Fighter 6/Thief 4; hp 44; #AT 2; Dmg 1d8+5 (<i>long sword +3</i>, Str) or by weapon +2; S
17, D 15, C 14, I 13, W 10, Ch 14; M 8; items: <i>helm of telepathy</i>; XP 2400.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Thief Skills:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> PL 31, FRT 23, PP 37, MS 37, CW 90, HS 27, HN
1-3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Location:</b> The
Unaligned School for Girls in the Ruined Tower District.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>See also:</b> <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/10/faces-of-pretomournon-pigs.html" target="_blank">The Basher Brothers</a>, Esbern, Ibbo, <span lang="EN-US">The
Romanticist, </span>Vithimiris Reizensteijn<span lang="EN-US">, Sylgya.</span></div>
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Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-61315441800901042322013-10-16T13:21:00.002+02:002013-10-16T13:21:58.860+02:00Orc Babies<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I’ve seen a
lot of discussion about Mearls’ 5E articles and the rules-side of the game, but
there’s been hardly any conversation about James Wyatt’s “<a href="http://wizards.com/dnd/Archive.aspx?category=all&subcategory=wanderingmonsters" target="_blank">Wandering Monsters</a>”
column. </span>There
should be, because it’s terrible. In the column, Wyatt discusses monsters, and
their role in the D&D game and world. The results are often uninspired, or <a href="http://wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20130903" target="_blank">they come completely out of the blue.</a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Apparently,
the goal is to create monster concepts that can include both the AD&D/3E
version of a monster, and the 4E version. Sounds good, but the result is often a wishy-washy, watered
down monster. I’m no fan of the changes 4E made to some of the monsters, but at
least there were concepts behind them (even if they were <i>weak</i> concepts). For example,
the much-lamented Devil Succubus was a dumb idea, but at least it was a Devil. <a href="http://wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20130917" target="_blank">In 5E, the Succubus will be nothing.</a></span> <span lang="EN-US">They’re watering down the
concept even more. Furthermore, Wyatt’s articles make for dry reading,
and that doesn’t bode well for the 5E Monster Manual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Last week’s
article, “<a href="http://wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20131008" target="_blank">You Got Science In My Fantasy</a>” touches upon a topic I’ve been meaning
to write about:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Let’s get
one thing straight: no orc is a “non-combatant”. The idea that encountering orc
babies is an interesting “moral dilemma” or “philosophical discussion” is an often
repeated adventurer legend that’s not true. It's up there with "Bree-yark means I surrender" and "Succubi are great kissers".</div>
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Orc babies are vicious, nasty
little critters: balls of fur with razor-sharp teeth, an unrelenting hunger for
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Orc Baby (2d8):</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL C; MV 15; AC 10; HD 1d4 hp; #AT 1; Dmg 1d4 (bite);
M 10; XP 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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An orc baby attacks the unarmored parts of their opponents (bare arms, face). If
its bite attack succeeds, it stays attached to its opponent and does 1d4 damage
automatically each round. To detach an orc baby the opponent must make a Str
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Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-18235824012579101892013-10-08T16:21:00.000+02:002013-10-08T22:39:28.212+02:00Picture Post: The RPG Art of Bryan TalbotIn 1982, British comic book artist <a href="http://www.bryan-talbot.com/" target="_blank">Bryan Talbot</a> produced some very atmospheric illustrations for the
German roleplaying game Das Schwarze Auge. It occurred to me that, since it was
never translated into English, few people outside Germany, the Netherlands,
Italy or France are familiar with them. So I made this post.<br />
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Talbot is best known for <i>The Adventures of Luther Arkwright</i>, and has provided art for <i>Judge Dredd, Batman the Dark Knight,</i> and <i>Sandman</i>, among other things. In 1982 he produced 100 illustrations for German roleplaying game<i> Das Schwarze Auge</i>. (As I have written <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/d-30-day-challenge-day-1-how-i-got.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>, DSA was my first RPG.)<br />
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For a whole generation of German and Dutch gamers, his atmospheric black-and-white illustrations were the first introduction to what a fantasy world looked like.<br />
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It looked like this:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The city of Havena has seen better days.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is from the 2nd, censored edition. Originally, the girl's dress was torn and the goblin was touching her in an inappropriate way. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are many illustrations of rooms in this book. This is one of the more interesting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Talbot drew this map of the game world before there even was a setting. It informed the shape the campaign setting would take.</td></tr>
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<br />Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-42265025701473401752013-10-05T14:55:00.000+02:002014-02-18T12:14:36.645+01:00Faces of Pretomournon: The Pigs<h1>
The Basher Brothers<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US">If you want to have someone killed, the best
place to go to is the Secret Masters Guild. But sometimes you do not want
someone dead immediately. Maybe you want him beat up? Threaten him? Collect
money he owes you? Break his legs? Then
you can contact the Basher Brothers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The pigs Ale, Vodka and Gin - their father named
them - began their careers as bodyguards in service of the rich moneylender
Garrelt Cristofoletto. Cristofoletto always used pigs as bodyguards - and still
does - because he thinks that they look "tough". The brothers Ale and
Vodka Basher guarded the moneylender for almost five years. During that time they
often performed special "chores" for him. For example, when someone
refused to pay, the brothers paid the debtor a visit to advise him to pay quickly
(and when a large sum was involved, maybe break a leg or two). Ale and Wodka
often took their teenage sister Gin with them on these jobs, in order to teach
her “the ropes”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When the new tax system was introduced, it paid
Cristofoletto better to dismiss his bodyguards and take on freelancers. Of
course he hired Ale and Vodka Basher right away, but the two pigs suddenly found
themselves forced to start a company. However, Vodka saw an opportunity to
expand their business. Gin began approaching new customers. There appeared to
be a large market for Brute Force, and soon they got so many commissions that
they had to hire personnel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now the Basher Brothers (and the Basher sister)
are at the head of the largest mercenary guild in Pretomournon. All members of
the gang are pigs, about as many bears as sows. Ale and Vodka no longer work as
bodyguards - they leave that to the pigs in their service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ale, the oldest brother, is the largest, the strongest,
and the dumbest of the siblings. Since he no longer does mercenary work, he
behaves as if he's better than the staff - many of whom are former friends of
his. Ale's an Executive Board Member of the mercenary guild, but actually he’s nothing
more than a glorified guard of his younger brother and sister. He is especially
protective of Gin, and he makes it very dangerous for would-be suitors to come
near his sister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Vodka, the middle sibling, is only slightly
smarter than his older brother, but not by much. Vodka pictures himself as a
real businessman. He dresses like a wealthy merchant, smokes big cigars, and
travels through the city in his own rickshaw, pulled by one of his servants.
But beneath that stylish exterior he remains the low-class gangster from the
River District. He is vulgar, has terrible manners and a banal sense of humor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Gin is the Basher sister. She's smarter than
her brothers and therefore takes care of administration, human resources, and
client contacts. But make no mistake, even though she’s smart, Gin is as
vicious and violent as her brothers, and strong enough to beat almost every thug
in the city in a one-on-one fight - except for Ale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Basher
Brothers have many clients. In addition to providing Cristofoletto's
protection, they work for Vithimiris ReizenSteyn, on whose behalf they threaten
the art dealer Fern, for <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-manipulator.html" target="_blank">Carter Don</a>, who hired them to clear the orphanage of
the Amazon <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/10/faces-of-pretomournon-amazon.html" target="_blank">Demostratia</a>, and for the magician Laumones of Rozeren, for whom they
try to keep the rogue only known as "The Romanticist" away from his
daughter Abigail. In all three of these jobs the Bashers aren’t very successful,
and it looks like there’s room for competition in the thugging market. So far,
however, no one has dared to compete with Ale, Vodka and Gin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ale Basher:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL N; MV 12; AC 6 (studded leather +1); Pig
Male Fighter7; hp 49; #AT 1; Dmg 1d6+3 (<i>mace
+1</i>, Str) or 1d4+2 (bite, Str) or by weapon +2; S 17, D 10, C 16, I 5, W 9,
Ch 7; M 11; XP 790.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Vodka Basher:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL N; MV 12; AC 6 (unarmored); Pig Male Thief
9; hp 43; #AT 1; Dmg 1d4+1 (silver dagger, Str) or 1d4+1 (bite, Str) or by
weapon +1; S 15, D 11, C 15, I 7, W 10, Ch 8; M 9; special: backstab (2d4+2
dmg), thief abilities; items: <i>gloves of
swimming and climbing</i>; XP 1700.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Gin Basher:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL N; MV 12; AC 5 (unarmored, Dex); Pig Female
Fighter 5; hp 40; #AT 1; Dmg 1d6+1 (mace, Str) or 1d4+1 (bite, Str) or by weapon
+1; S 15, D 13, C 13, I 12, W 10, Ch 11; M 9; XP 350.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Pig Thugs of the Basher Guild:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL N; MV 12; AC 8 (leather); Pig
Fighter 2; hp 10; #AT 1; Dmg 1d6+1 (mace, Str) or 1d4+1 (bite, Str) or by
weapon +1; M 10; XP 29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All have normal abilities of a pig, as described <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2012/03/pigs.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Location:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> The Basher siblings can be found in their
office in the Money District, or in the barracks of their mercenaries in the
River District.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">See also:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Garrelt Cristofoletto, <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/10/faces-of-pretomournon-amazon.html" target="_blank">Demostratia</a>, <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-manipulator.html" target="_blank">Carter Don</a>, Fern, Vithimiris Reizensteijn, The Romanticist, Laumones Van Rozeren.</span></div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-12895885989061549322013-10-02T14:41:00.001+02:002013-10-02T14:41:31.473+02:00D&D 30: I Made It, and What Now?<div class="MsoNormal">
So I
completed the 30 day challenge this Monday – precisely on schedule. I managed
to post every day, and I didn’t skip days, so I didn’t need to catch up.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I had a fun
time telling stories about my favorite PC, NPC, and events from previous
campaigns. I play D&D in one form or another for almost 25 years, and it
was nice to reminiscent about successful games in the past. Looking back, I saw
we had some awesome campaigns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I think
everyone agrees the list is a bit dry and repetitive, but all-in-all most
questions are good subjects to blog about. The only questions I couldn’t answer
satisfactory where the two dice questions, and the one about energy. I endured
the repetitive days of monster questions by drawing each monster. They became
my favorite questions on the list. Making an illustration takes a lot more time
than writing a post does, but I ended up with some nice drawings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I really
liked reading the posts of the other participants. Everyone’s posts were
different from each other, making some nice surprises, or “oh, that’s cool”-moments.
Although, I didn’t understand the answers on day 6 (favorite deity). Tyr?
Chauntea? Where’s Vecna, or Tharizdun?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The most
boring thing about the challenge were the people complaining about the
challenge. Of course everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but I don’t
understand the need for macho posturing and silly insults. Oh well, it’s over
now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>What’s Next
For This Blog?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“<a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/search/label/Faces%20of%20Pretomournon" target="_blank">Faces of Pretomournon</a>” has begun, and three of the NPCs are posted. I’ll keep posting
the write-ups about one every weekend, but with 30 NPCs, that will take a long
time. Maybe, if I manage to get ahead, I can speed up posting a bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Further, I’m
still writing “<a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/search/label/Lost%20Library%20of%20the%20Death%20Speakers" target="_blank">Lost Library of the Deathspeakers</a>”. To be honest, the 30 day
challenge took a lot of time away from writing the module, but I’m now
returning to it, and thanks to the challenge there’s a gibbering mouther in it.
I’ll post some things like new spells, books, and magic items from the
adventure on the blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-57841240995763727562013-09-30T11:55:00.003+02:002013-09-30T11:55:59.895+02:00D&D 30 Day Challenge: Day 30 – Best DM I’ve Had<div class="MsoNormal">
Last day!</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s
impossible to name the best DM out of the DMs I’ve had. They all were very
different, and they all had good moments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My cousin
Rutger was my first DM. Actually, we always ran our campaigns together. We
would take turns DMing and playing. Sometimes we would prepare our own separate
adventures, but more often we would prepare for the game together, and decide
who would DM two minutes before we began.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My friend
Alex was my DM for most of my time at art academy. Alex was a big horror fan,
and read a lot of Stephen King. He was attracted to Ravenloft, and ran
adventures in that setting exclusively . </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Being both an art student and a horror
fan, it’s no surprise Alex was very good at building atmosphere. His Ravenloft
game often went beyond the gothic horror the setting usually provides, and our
PCs encountered scary dreams, serial killers, and a rusty petrol station from
another time. He often used out-of-game elements like music and lightning in
his game <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My friend
Martijn was a believer in The One Way: the DM providing the railroad and the
player’s staying in character as much as possible. His favorite setting was
Al-Qadim, and for the most part he ran published adventures. I have written
about those before (here and here), because I’ve used them for my own Al-Qadim
campaign as well, and sometimes I could see he had difficulty making the
adventures work. That’s not to say he was a bad DM, it was the adventure’s
fault. He was especially good at using props: clay amulets, handwritten
documents, that sort of thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Martijn was
running his Al-Qadim campaign when 3<sup>rd</sup> Edition came out, and
converted the campaign to the new rules. In hindsight, the shift from a more
story-oriented game to a more combat-oriented game was very clear. The story
elements were still there in 3<sup>rd</sup>, of course, but because the
characters had more combat-oriented abilities and the fights took a bit longer,
there was definitely more combat in the game than before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My brother
Jorrit DMed Dark Sun for a bit, decided he didn’t want to play AD&D
anymore, played and ran a lot of games in the Storyteller system, and came back
with 3<sup>rd</sup> Edition. When 4E came out we started a campaign together,
each of us running adventures in turn, but he quickly decided 4E wasn’t for him
and left our group. Now he mostly plays Pathfinder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’ve played
in two of Jorrit’s campaign: the Banewarrens campaign and his Castle Greyhawk
campaign. Both had the same faults, pretending to be large megadungeons but really
being 3.5 adventure paths. However, both have enough fun set-pieces, and Jorrit
is especially good at those. He was also good at managing a big rule-set like 3.5
and Pathfinder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So all of
the DMs I’ve had were the best in some aspects. It’s interesting to note all
of them were especially good at things I don’t do in my games. I don’t use
music, and my games are more about ideas than about atmosphere. I hardly use
any props, and while I’ve had long miniature combats in my 4E game, of course,
I’m not really that good at the tactical side of the game. Maybe it’s because
I’m not very good at those things that I admire their skill with them.</div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-49774713523725442042013-09-29T14:30:00.000+02:002013-09-30T09:11:07.878+02:00Faces of Pretomournon: The Priestess<h1>
Amariza<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
Cathedral of Clouds in Pretomournon is the largest cathedral in the world. It’s
home to nearly a hundred small orders, all of which are members of The Temple,
the global organization for waning religions. The cathedral is a wonder to
behold: a huge structure of more than 500 feet high, made of large grey stones,
with gates big as titans, sixteen bell towers touching the sky, and guarded by terrible
gargoyles patrolling the walls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Inside
there is plenty to see, hear and experience as well. The floor is inlaid with
the sacred symbols of a thousand gods. High stained-glass windows display
scenes out of the stories of Deucalion, who saved mankind and wildlife by
building the ark <i>Utnapishtim</i>, of
Rystespyt, who teached humanity to speak and write, and of Crow, who slayed The
Chimera Out Of Nowhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Each god
has its own shrine – the greater gods a chapel - and each shrine shows the
power and greatness of its god. The water in the font of Elgar, god of
Patrionism, heals all who drink from it, as long as he or she demonstrates to
know the full text of the national anthem, including the lesser known fourth
stanza. The dead husk of the Lord of Apathy, hanging on iron chains suspended
from the ceiling, promises to prophesize
for those who sacrifice a finger. The statue of the Invisible Queen will make everyone
with pure hatred and darkness in his or her heart beautiful in appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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these wonders, the Cathedral is rarely visited, and there are hardly any people
other than priests and tourists. One of those priests is Amariza, priestess of Muizi,
goddess of memory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At first sight,
her shuffling gait and stooped posture remind one of an older person, but once she
starts talking and laughing, it becomes clear immediately that she is younger.
Amariza is in her early ‘30s and small of stature. She wears her dark blond
hair pinned up in a bun and she always wears the light blue robe of office. A cloud of about 10 dragonflies – insects
sacred to the goddess Muizi – circles her constantly. When starting a
conversation, she always asks people the same question: "Do you remember
Muizi?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Amariza
grew up in Heugenis, a small village in the northeastern part of the Mournful
Kingdom. All residents of Heugenis worship the goddess Muizi, and from an early
age Amariza knew that she wanted to dedicate her life to serving her goddess.
The priest Pascer took her on as an acolyte at the age of twenty, and inaugurated
her into the mysteries of the faith. She learned to talk to dragonflies, to read
and interpret signs in the collective memory of humanity, and how to cast some
spells. Once her training was complete, the disadvantage of living and working
in a small town like Heugenis became clear: the shrine to Muizi was small, and
could be managed easily by one person. Amariza stayed on as Pascer’s assistant much
longer than normal for an acolyte, but eventually it became clear she had to
find her own path to walk. Therefore, Amariza decided to leave her home village
to travel to the capital, where the largest and most important shrine to Muizi
was located in the Cathedral of the Clouds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Amariza’s idea
was to join the priestly order of Muizi. However, as she arrived in
Pretomournon, to her dismay she discovered that no such order existed in the
city. The shrine in the cathedral was abandoned and no one – not even the leadership
of The Temple – knew about the shrine’s goddess. Amariza was shocked to learn
that no one knew about Muizi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When
Amariza learned more about the religious and philosophical schools in the city,
she came to the conclusion that the majority of the population had forgotten the
gods. And, as the new high priestess of memory, she felt it was here duty to do
something about it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With the
help of a young nun named Trudi, she obtained from the library of The Temple an
obscure ritual that calls a god into the material world. Amariza wants to use
this ritual to summon Muizi. She believes when the goddess of memory walks in
the world, people will remember again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The ritual
requires an enormous magical symbol drawn on the ground, covering an area of
half a city quarter. Although there’s enough space in the ruined part of
Pretomournon to make this half-mile-wide sign, the ruins in the outer circle of
the city are not quite uninhabited. Therefore, Amariza hired the “fixer” <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-manipulator.html" target="_blank">Carter Don</a> to ensure that the necessary area is clear, and the people who live there
are paid to move.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Although
Amariza is a sweet woman, she is very naive and gullible. She truly believes Carter
Don uses the money she pays – almost her entire salary as a High Priestess of
The Temple – to compensate people for leaving their homes, and she has no idea
of his true methods. She has no suspicion of her confidant Trudi's <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-jester.html" target="_blank">true identity</a> either, and has no clue about the real objective of the summoning
ritual: to bring about the Apocalypse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Amariza:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL N; MV 12; AC 9 (unarmored); Human Female Mage
1; hp 4; #AT 1; Dmg 1d4 (dagger) or by weapon; S 11, D 10, C 13, I 14, W 9, Ch
14; M 6; Items: <i>medallion of thoughts</i>;
XP 13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Spells:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Amariza can memorize two 1<sup>st</sup> level
spells, or one of 2<sup>nd</sup> level. Favorite spells are <i>amnesia</i>, <i>augury</i>, and <i>know alignment</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Faultless Memory: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">As a priestess of Muiri, goddess of memory,
Amariza never forgets anything. She can recall anything she has heard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Sacred Dragonflies:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Amariza always has 1d6+6 dragonflies flying
around her. If Amariza is attacked, the dragonflies will fight as an 2 HD
insect swarm with a number of hit points equal to the number of dragonflies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Dragonflies (1d6+6):</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL N; MV 3, fly 6; AC 7; HD 2; hp 1
per dragonfly; #AT 1; Dmg 2 hp (bite); Save as human0; M 11; XP 29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Location:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> In the Cathedral of Clouds during work hours,
or in her small home in the Priests’ Quarter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">See also:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-manipulator.html" target="_blank">Carter Don</a>, <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-jester.html" target="_blank">Quinzel</a>, Sylgya.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Note:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Because the cleric class doesn’t exist in the
Weird Opera world, Amariza is a mage. If you want to use her in a more
traditional game, make her a cleric of intermediate level. Give her<i> faultless memory </i>as a granted power
instead of turning undead, or give her both.</span>Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-68561648956404048452013-09-29T11:07:00.000+02:002013-09-29T11:07:15.124+02:00D&D 30 Day Challenge: Day 29 – What is the number you always seem to roll on a d20?<div class="MsoNormal">
Okay, the
maker of this list truly was out of ideas at this point. Thank God the
challenge is over tomorrow. We wouldn’t want him to suffer for much longer.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">How am I
going to answer this? 3? 4? I always seem to roll low when I want to roll high,
and I always seem to roll high when I want to roll low, but I think everyone
has that problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-64016165660887443382013-09-28T11:39:00.001+02:002013-09-28T11:54:28.920+02:00D&D 30 Day Challenge: Day 28 – A Character I Will Never Play Again<div class="MsoNormal">
I’m with
Christopher Eccleston on this one: when I stop playing a character, I never go
back to playing it, even if it would be for a 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary
celebration.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Usually,
when me and my group end a campaign, we start up something else entirely. For
example, now I’m playing Vampire. If we go back to D&D we’ll probably start at 1<sup>st</sup> level, so previous characters are often too experienced. Also, there are many different character concepts, and returning to the same character means I can't play them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I do use favorite previous PCs as NPC in new campaigns regularly. Sometimes they’re given a new
name, appearance, and role so the players don’t recognize him or her. At other
times, the character is pretty much the same. I like to have some continuity between my campaign worlds, even if they're not really in the same universe. For example, <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-jester.html" target="_blank">Quinzel</a> is the character I played in my brother's Greyhawk campaign, <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/d-30-days-challenge-day-14-my-favorite.html" target="_blank">Saldoran Gorst</a> is from my <i>Dromenon </i>campaign, and <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/d-30-day-challenge-day-3-favorite.html" target="_blank">Kata</a> from an old 2nd Edition campaign all exist in the Weird Opera world in one form of the other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-33808185196147447362013-09-27T13:17:00.000+02:002013-09-27T13:17:22.070+02:00D&D 30 Day Challenge: Day 27 – A Character I Want To Play In The Future<div class="MsoNormal">
I’ve been
DMing for most of the past 6 years, and before that I played an Ice Witch and a <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/d-30-day-challenge-day-8-favorite.html" target="_blank">bard/jester</a>. I haven’t played a thief in about ten years! And it is my <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/d-30-day-challenge-day-3-favorite.html" target="_blank">favorite class</a>! So for my next character (not my <i>Next </i>character, mind you) I’ll probably
roll up a thief. To be more precise, I’ll play her:</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Her name is
Blasphemy Battleship (<a href="http://benedictcumberbatchgenerator.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">now where would I have gotten that name?</a>), and only
steals so she can provide for her poor, sick mother.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Or so she says...</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-13731813714244518952013-09-26T21:25:00.001+02:002013-09-26T21:25:32.827+02:00D&D 30 Day Challenge: Day 26 – My Favorite Non-Magic Item<div class="MsoNormal">
As we
approach the end of the 30 day challenge, the questions become more and more
dull. The imagination of whoever wrote these questions didn’t reach very far.
Oh well, we knew that going in.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Anyway, my
favorite non-magical items are books. Of course, there are many magical books,
tomes, librams and manuals in the game, but regular books can be just as much
fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Spellbooks:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Can be found in adventures when the bad guy is
a mage, or when adventuring in a library. Found spellbooks are the most common
source of spells for PC mages to add to their own spellbooks. For the DM,
they’re also the best way to introduce new spells into the campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Exposition:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Books are a good way to fill in your players
about certain aspects of your campaign world, or, if you’re into that kind of
thing, the plot of the adventure. For this kind of books handouts can be nice,
representing interesting pages in the book and detailing one of the campaign
world’s forgotten legends, or pages from the vampire’s diary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Traps:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Books make great traps, because when PCs find
a book, they’ll want to read it. Any book kan be <i>firetrap</i>ped or inscribed with a <i>sepia
snake sigil</i>. The adventure “Ex Libris” from <i>Dungeon Adventures</i> # 29 had Abishai devils imprisoned in its books
that were freed when a book was read. The letters on a page can be an entity
existing of ideas, that jumps into the reader’s mind as a parasite, or they
could be a spell that casts itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Mythos Tomes:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Books that slowly drive you mad while you try
to decipher the mad ramblings of the writer are always a favorite. These books
are somewhere between a spellbook and exposition. <i>Realms of Crawling Chaos</i> from Goblinoid Games has a good system for
reading Mythos Tomes and learning spells from them. And the Madness rules from <i>Call of Cthulhu</i> are actually in the 3.5 <i>Unearthed Arcana</i>, which means they’re
available through the OGL.</span></div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-89022914957592317552013-09-25T13:07:00.000+02:002013-09-25T13:14:37.507+02:00D&D 30 Day Challenge: Day 25 – My Favorite Magic Item<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">My favorite
magic item is the <i>wand of wonder</i>.
There’s a number of items of random magic in the game (<i>bag of tricks</i>, <i>deck of many
things</i>, etc.) but none of them strike me as whimsical as <i>the wand of wonder</i>. The wand has a nice
balance between effects: they are funny (turning permanently purple), useless
(grass grows), damaging (a 6d6 <i>fireball</i>),
and useful (<i>invisibility</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I use the wand often. Recently, I gave the </span>apprentice mage Lessie in <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/search/label/Three%20Sad%20Wizards" target="_blank">Three Sad Wizards</a> a variant <i>wand of wonder</i>. For her wand I removed the more damaging effects to
make it less deadly and more humorous. <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-jester.html" target="_blank">Quinzel</a> from <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/search/label/Faces%20of%20Pretomournon" target="_blank">Faces of Pretomournon</a> has a
<i>wand of wonder </i>as well.</div>
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Why WotC
thought they needed to change the wand into a <i>rod of wonder</i> is beyond me. Just another case of fixing things that
aren’t broke. Wand or rod, this magic item is always fun.</div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-74568913765109676102013-09-24T09:39:00.001+02:002013-09-24T09:39:55.865+02:00D&D 30 Day Challenge: Day 24 – Favorite energy type<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Gosh, finally
an interesting question on this list! I love energy types, they’re my favorite
part of the game! I can’t imagine how we ever managed without them. I mean,
when a fire giant that is immune to fire is attacked with a torch, does he get
damage? How do you know if the torch is doing fire damage? Leaving it to the
DM seems unfair and untrustworthy. Fortunately, energy types were introduced in
3<sup>rd</sup> Edition, and 4E made them even better! And I'm liking what I've seen so far in Next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Anyway, my
favorite energy: I ‘m a big fan of Necrotic energy and Radiant energy. Necrotic
comes from the negative energy plane, and Radiant comes from the positive
energy plane, but the designers were smart enough not to call these energy
types “positive energy” and “negative energy”. That would have been stupid.
“Necrotic” sounds much awesomerer!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">However,
the very best energy and my true favorite is Fire energy, because it can set
things on fire and burn things. Now that’s what I call awesome!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-46325272655396665132013-09-23T15:58:00.000+02:002013-09-23T16:00:24.634+02:00D&D 30 Day Challenge: Day 23 – Least Favorite Monster Overall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">I’ve said I
dislike dragons. But I dislike dragonborn even more. I hate them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Excuse me
for ranting a bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To me, they
personify lack of imagination and making everything boring that was cool. They make
the fantastical outright mundane, and that’s never a good thing. The existence
of dragonborn severely undermines the mythology of dragons. <a href="http://wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20130910" target="_blank">Apparently, WotC wants to make dragons truly legendary.</a> Well, if people see dragon creatures in
the streets every day, that just isn’t
going to work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dragonmen
were around in the game before 4E. In order of most interesting to least: <i>Dragonlance </i>had draconians, born out of
corrupted eggs stolen from metallic dragons. There were different kinds of
draconians, and they were pretty cool. For example, the Aurak draconian would
explode when it reached 0 hp, and another one turned to stone, trapping his
attacker’s sword. <i>Dark Sun</i> had the
Dray, a race created by an undead dragon king, and the <i>Forgotten Realms</i> had Dragonkin, barbarian dragonmen under the
control of the Cult of the Dragon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So it might
have been a good idea for 4E to combine them into one dragonkin race. But did
the designers make them barbarians created by an undead dragon king, born from
corrupted dragon eggs who explode upon death? No, they made them boring
paladins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I hate
dragonborn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Jasper Polanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14304076684060757294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874562530531101141.post-89269913095821262862013-09-22T16:35:00.000+02:002014-02-19T17:03:16.626+01:00Faces of Pretomournon: The Jester<h1>
Quinzel<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US">Quinzel is
a jester who is rapidly making a name for herself in the city. She started her career
in the <i>Comedy Dungeon</i>, a club where
the less fortunate come to listen to jokes about the upper class. When she climbed
the stage, the innocent looking blonde immediately charmed the audience. To everyone's
surprise this little girl told the most coarse, rude, and vulgar jokes. Her
performances were an instant hit, and soon Madame Cherisse came knocking on Quinzel’s
door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigzwErVVDjWy2OjD22CsW-FtDggTeSSiAqYC4Sj2AOrHhh93DXp6yU4xvINKfYkMLjhLpo5PeAl21oxFIV5eEUI0QuXdAUgjuiFAGVMz87wzzeaYfUYWD5reLQQA7yLCxE8sBDxyBGIs9Q/s1600/Quinzel_nw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigzwErVVDjWy2OjD22CsW-FtDggTeSSiAqYC4Sj2AOrHhh93DXp6yU4xvINKfYkMLjhLpo5PeAl21oxFIV5eEUI0QuXdAUgjuiFAGVMz87wzzeaYfUYWD5reLQQA7yLCxE8sBDxyBGIs9Q/s400/Quinzel_nw.jpg" height="400" width="281" /></a><span lang="EN-US">Now she
regularly performs at the <i>Palais Cherisse</i>, on the leading stage in the city. Quinzel
’s performances here are attended by the same high class men she makes jokes
about. On her first night, Madame Charisse tried to have Quinzel adjust her
repertoire, and eliminate some jokes about important customers. But Quinzel would
have none of it. She stepped onto the stage and began with a joke about Garrelt
Cristofoletto, who sat less than 10 yards away with a courtesan on his lap. The
whole room held his breath, but Cristofoletto took it all in good fun and began
to laugh. The ice was broken, and since then Quinzel can say and do whatever
she wants when she’s on stage. No matter how far she goes, she comes away with
anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This is
mainly because of how she looks. Quinzel is small in stature, unruly blond hair
and big blue eyes. Although she’s in her early twenties, she can look as if she’s
anywhere between 15 and 30 years, depending on how she wants herself to present.
With her hair loose and without her jester makeup, Quinzel is practically unrecognizable,
and she makes good use of this in executing her mistress’ plans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">See,
Quinzel is the Disciple of Padat, The Fall, the 8<sup>th</sup> Lord of Misrule.
This demonic entity will destroy the world of Seralin by collapsing it into the
gas giant Anderove. To do so, it must first reach the world and enter it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Quinzel is
originally from another world. Padat has plucked her from another world called
Oerth to achieve the end of Seralin. Now, Quinzel is working to call her mistress
to this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She does so
by using the resources of The Temple. Disguised as a young nun named Trudi,
Quinzel has won the trust of <a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-priestess.html" target="_blank">Amariza</a>, a priestess of Muizi, goddess of Memory.
Amariza is very upset about the advancing humanotheism and atheism in
Pretomournon and decided something had to be done. Thanks to Trudi she came
into possession of a ritual which will bring her goddess into the world. Of course,
the ritual Trudi/Quinzel has provided will not call Muizi, but Padat, The Fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It should
be clear by now that Quinzel is insane. Traveling between worlds and seeing
what lies behind Reality has made her certifiable nuts. At night she has horrible
nightmares, at daytime she has regular fits of crying. On days when she is not performing
sometimes she fills sketchbooks with drawings of the hideous monsters from her
dreams, and she plays haunting melodies on her flute that make listeners either
sad or terrified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">However,
there are few who ever see this side of Quinzel: for almost everyone she is the
cheerful, provocative, mischievous jester who tells rude jokes. Ibbo, himself the
Disciple of Arak-Kur-Mortahn, The Death Titan, 5th Lord of Misrule, knows who she
is and assists her sometimes - even though he would prefer his own master to destroy
the world. Madame Cherisse sees Quinzel’s depression and anxiety behind the
scenes of her performances, but she’s
unable to bond with the young woman. She has instructed a number of her spies to
keep an eye on Quinzel, but so far none of them has found out she’s the servant
of an Apocalypse Demon.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Quinzel:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AL C; MV 12; AC 4 (<i>manifesting leather armor +2</i>, Dex); Human Female Jester 8; hp 29;
#AT 1; Dmg 1d6+1 (<i>short sword +1</i>) or
by weapon +2; S 9, D 14, C 12, I 15, W 13, Ch 15; M 10; items: <i>wand of wonder</i>; XP 1560.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Spells:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Quinzel cast spells as a 4<sup>th</sup> level
Mage.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Manifesting armor:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Quinzel usually goes about her business unarmored.
The armor instantly manifests automatically when she is attacked. If she wants
to, she can also summon the armor.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Location: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">At The Comedy Dungeon or the Palais Cherisse
performing, in the Cathedral of Clouds (as Trudi), or in her apartment in the
River District.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>See also:</b>
<a href="http://weirdopera.blogspot.nl/2013/09/faces-of-pretomournon-priestess.html" target="_blank">Amariza</a>, Madame Cherisse, Garrelt Cristofoletto, Ibbo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Sources: </b><span lang="EN-US">I use my own version, but there are many
good Jester classes on the web. Depending on which system you use, you can try
one of the following versions:</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Swords & Wizardry and OD&D compatible
games: <a href="http://swcompanion.wdfiles.com/local--files/resources/jester">http://swcompanion.wdfiles.com/local--files/resources/jester</a>
(obviously, Quinzel isn’t immune to insanity).<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Labyrinth Lord and B/X compatible games: <a href="http://labyrinthinelore.weebly.com/uploads/6/0/8/4/6084555/jester.pdf">http://labyrinthinelore.weebly.com/uploads/6/0/8/4/6084555/jester.pdf</a>
(obviously, Quinzel isn’t immune to insanity).<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->For OSRIC and AD&D compatible games: <a href="http://www.dragonsfoot.org/files/pdf/FootprintsNo12.pdf">http://www.dragonsfoot.org/files/pdf/FootprintsNo12.pdf</a></div>
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</span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">For Basic Fantasy: </span><a href="http://basicfantasy.org/download.cgi/BF-Jesters-Supplement-r2.pdf" style="text-indent: -18pt;">http://basicfantasy.org/download.cgi/BF-Jesters-Supplement-r2.pdf</a></div>
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